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“FX for the Little Guy” Western Union’s Small Business Payment Solution

Glenbrook’s Carol Coye Benson and Erin McCune are interviewing leading commercial payment providers and enablers to understand whether we’ve finally reached the ‘tipping point’ for B2B payments. This post featuring Western Union is the second of a series of interviews that we will be featuring here at Payments Views. You can learn more about the […]

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Innovations in Card Acceptance

What Drives Innovation? More often than not, the successful innovations that surprise us come from disrupters who focus in a laser-like way on unserved market opportunities. In doing so, they are able to successfully fly below the radar of the incumbents (to use Christensen’s familiar terminology). The incumbents, after all, have a laser-like focus on […]

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Reflections on Sibos 2010

This week I’ve been in Amsterdam for Sibos – the annual international banking conference sponsored by SWIFT. (For those of you who aren’t familiar with SWIFT it is a consortium of worldwide banks that runs a global secure network connecting banks in over 200 countries. Interbank messages to support payments and brokerage trades all travel […]

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Chasing the E-Invoicing Dream: New Glenbrook Research

Companies of all sizes have adopted accounts payable (AP) automation solutions, yet recent IAPP-TAWPI and Glenbrook research reveals that e-invoicing benefits remain elusive. Semantics Electronic invoicing, or e-invoicing, means different things to different people, and much depends on the context. There are solutions that cater to accounts receivable, focused on enabling efficient creation and delivery […]

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Glenbrook in Haiti!

One of my partners, Bryan Derman, and I are in Haiti for a few days kicking off a project where we’ll be part of a team with RTX Technology Partners designing a “from the ground up” electronic payments system for the Republic of Haiti. Our team began competing for the project over eight months ago, […]

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Mobile Payment Themes from CTIA

I am just returned from the 25th anniversary International CTIA Wireless conference Las Vegas.  An estimated 40,000 people were expected to attend and from the look of things, that number seemed right. It was encouraging seeing companies willing to travel for a conference and presenting new innovations in the mobile space.  The conference is focused […]

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Localization of Payments: Lessons from Online Travel

Written by Jacqueline Chilton based on a speeches and panel discussion at ATPS 2009 – Airline and Travel Payments Summit (Link to presentations) – Save the date for ATPS 2010 in San Francisco, Nov 30 – Dec 1, 2010 Localization is one of the key trends influencing the future of payments. At Glenbrook we believe […]

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Peeling The Blippy Onion

Where are you? What did you buy? How much did you pay? Did you get a deal? This might sound like your teenager on their phone, but it’s what a new company called Blippy hopes to answer with a new Web 2.0 service. Here’s the basic premise. What if you could broadcast everything you bought […]

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Fraud and the Airline Industry: ATPS2009 Day 1

The pre-workshops and part of the first day at ATPS 2009 focused on fraud. Here’s a round up of my impressions after a full day of panel discussion, presentations, and breakout sessions. Once the presentations are up on the ATPS site I will provide links to each speaker’s deck. Presentations are here. According to 41st […]

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The Check is in the Email? Electronic Payments Orders Could Be An Opportunity for Banks

I think it’s fair to say that the success of remote deposit capture (which allows the recipient of a check to scan and deposit it electronically) took the payments industry somewhat by surprise. The early take on this offering seemed to be “hey, why not just change to electronic payments”? The answer, of course, was […]

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Mobile Payments at the Point of Sale [ATM, Debit & Prepaid Forum 2009]

I am currently attending the ATM, Debit & Prepaid Forum 2009.  The event  started today with pre-conference workshops. Due to my recent work in mobile payments, I was interested to talk to Richard Crone about the key messages in his Mobile Payments workshop.  Richard’s key point was that “the one who enrolls [the customer] is […]

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Finovate2009 - Afternoon Session 1

Resuming my live blogging of Finovate2009 from NYC in a few minutes. AFTERNOON SESSION #1 Yodlee -Peter Hazelhurst, SVP Products New Yodlee dashboard highlighting capabilities that used to be hard to get to Web 2.o interface based on widgets New UI indicates good and bad times to pay bills, based on expected balances New feature […]

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Fun Payment Facts: Currency Throughout US History

This afternoon I visited the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. I am on the board of the SF Treasury Management Association and every year we organize a tour for our members. The Fed Reserve tours are open to the public and geared toward high school-aged kids. But everyone gets giddy around piles and piles […]

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Digital Content & Mobile Phones - a Look at Zong

Editors Note: Glenbrook, along with the rest of the payments industry, has been watching developments in mobile payments closely.  A few weeks ago, our partner Carol Coye Benson profiled Boku and CashEdge products.  Today, she takes a look at Canada’s Zoompass, Zong (below), Billing Revolution, and Blaze Mobile. [UPDATE Aug 6th: Be sure to check […]

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Broken Windows and Card Payments Fraud

Last week, I was thinking a bit about the many issues of fraud in the card payments world and how the lack of a business case within the industry itself has slowed adoption of various technologies that could be deployed to reduce fraud. It struck me that the old but well proven idea about “broken […]